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Nepal loses original 1816 treaty defining India border, says minister
Nepal loses original 1816 treaty defining India border, says minister
Nepal has lost track of the original 1816 Treaty of Sugauli that defined its border with British India, Foreign Minister Shishir Khanal told Parliament on Monday. Khanal said the government had no…
The Story in Brief
Nepal has lost track of the original 1816 Treaty of Sugauli that defined its border with British India, Foreign Minister Shishir Khanal told Parliament on Monday. Khanal said the government had no clear information on whether the treaty documents in the National Archives were official originals. The disclosure comes as Nepal and India are locked in a fresh border dispute over Lipulekh, Kalapani and Limpiyadhura.
Nepal Prime Minister Balendra Shah recently accused India of encroaching on Nepali territory. India has rejected third-party mediation, saying the matter is bilateral. New Delhi maintains that nearly 98 per cent of the border is already demarcated. Nepal's parliamentary committee had confirmed the original treaty was missing as early as July 2024. Nepal has 655 treaties in total and plans to review or amend 600 of them.
The Indian Opinion
Nepal's government cannot produce the paper that settled its border, yet its prime minister claims India has encroached on its land. The missing original is not proof of a 19th-century British conspiracy, as some Nepali commentators suggest; it is a failure of national record-keeping. Both sides should stop grandstanding and count the actual pillars. India says 98 per cent of the boundary is demarcated. Which specific markers along the Gandak River or Kalapani does Kathmandu dispute? Let the surveyors, not the politicians, produce the map.
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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